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Not-So-Scary Mini Golf

Cedar Creek Family Golf Center is decorated for Halloween throughout the month.  It's the best time to bring your group to Cedar Creek for fun.      

18 hole Miniature Golf Course

• Open daily October 1 - 31 from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.

• On October 23, 24, 30 & 31, 2009 we stay open until 9 p.m. (weather permitting).  So enjoy the Halloween season with a spirited round of mini golf.

• $4.50 for children 12 and younger or $5.50 for adults

  Groups:  Call Cedar Creek at 219-365-2902 for reservations.  What a great place for a party!  Call about our Spooky Snacks Package including mini golf, a devil-ious treat, and hot cocoa or cider.  There is a 10 person minimum and 50 person maximum.  Call early to book your outing.

  Come out to Cedar Creek Family Golf Center the last Friday and Saturday nights in October for our Not-So-Scary Mini Golf. Halloween decorations fill the mini golf to create a spooky atmosphere, but not to spooky for those youngsters who are not fond of the dark. Come dressed up in a costume and receive a treat.

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  Oak Savannah Hike/Bike Trail

  The Oak Savannah Trail (OST) currently encompasses 8.25 miles from Oak Ridge Prairie County Park to the Prairie Duneland Trail at the Lake/Porter County Line Road in Portage with a break in Hobart. Trail users will be able to access the western segment of the trail from the trail head near the parking lot at Oak Ridge Prairie. This segment runs 6.25 miles to Wisconsin Street in Hobart. The eastern segment, following the Hobart break, may be accessed from a gravel parking lot at the northeast corner of Cleveland Street and State Road 51 in Hobart. This segment is 1.25 miles in length and will take users from the Cleveland/51 intersection to the Prairie Duneland Trail.

  Citizens should exercise extreme caution as they use the OST because several at-grade road crossing’s have to be taken into consideration. Main, Chase, Harrison, Madison, Delaware, Georgia, Liverpool, and Union Streets all have moderate to heavy vehicular traffic that affects the OST. Special caution should be taken at Broadway where 30,000 vehicles pass daily. For safety purposes, the Lake County Parks strongly recommends that users at the Broadway intersection travel one block south via sidewalks and cross at the 53^rd Avenue stoplight.

  Trail users will enjoy the OST as it takes them on a journey through savannahs, remnant prairies, wetlands, lakes, parks, and residential neighborhoods.

  The Lake County Parks and the City of Hobart are working together to close the gap between Wisconsin Street in Hobart and the Cleveland/51 intersection in the next few years. Any questions regarding this gap should be directed to the Hobart Parks Department.

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  WORLD WAR II TRIBUTE

   at Buckley Homestead

  

Buckley Homestead Living History Farm

Saturday, MAY 2, 2009 - 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Sunday, MAY 3, 2009 - 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

$5 per person

Children under age 7 FREE

Reenactors from all over the Midwest, and some from as far away as Canada, don authentic uniforms and use restored military equipment to portray that most important time period in our history. Throughout the weekend, the park comes to life with memories of the war years, both military and on the homefront. If you are a veteran, history enthusiast, or would just like to learn more about the 1940s era, this is the place for the entire family. It's wonderful for families and students.

• Victory Garden displays and demonstrations using wartime recipes by the Lake County Master Gardeners. Heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs are featured.
• The Buckley Homestead Main House Museum will be open during the program.
• WWII era automobiles on display by Winamac Old Auto Club and others
• Children can learn about rationing stamps near the main house
• WWII Veterans are invited to talk with the public in the Veteran's Tent
• First Aid Station is located in the east section of the carriage house.
• Food Concessions

Notes:  Walking Tours, which last about one hour, take the visitor to various vignettes performed by reenactor units.  Meet in the barnyard.  Hayride alternative for those who cannot walk the route.

The number of people permitted in the Buckley home museum is limited.  You may be asked to wait until other leave before you may enter.

PETS ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE PARK SITE DURING THIS EVENT.

• Grand Kankakee Marsh County Park
• Saturday, May 16, 2009   10 a.m. until 4 p.m. 
• Sunday, May 17, 2009      10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
• $2 per person or children 7 and younger free

Jump into our time machine and hang on!  We’re traveling back more than 250 years when Northwest Indiana was primarily a marsh land.  The Grand Kankakee River was the major route for travelers and merchant traders in the New World.  The Voyageur Rendezvous lets us peek into the lives of these men and women.  You will see Native Americans, French-Canadian canoe men, called Voyageurs, British and French militia and many others who would have lived or traded along the Grand Kankakee River.

Special School Invite to the Voyageur Rendezvous 18^th Century Fur Trade Era

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FEATURING "An Old Time Tradition"  

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Bring the family and friends to a day of fun, great food and some of the best entertainment in all of Northwest Indiana. 

Entertainment for all ages

Traditional Crafts and Demonstrations -- Wood crafters, china painters, spinners, quilters, weavers, and a broom maker, along with others, will demonstrate their skills and sell their wares. The farmers will be in the west pasture and Lake County Master Gardeners will be in the garden.

A Walk Through Time – You’ll travel back in history as you walk along the trail by the pioneer cabin. Reenactors from the Fur Trade Era to the Civil War portray military, civilians and artisans. For good old-fashioned fun, adults and children alike are encouraged to partake in games from days gone by.

Old-fashioned fun for young and old

Games for children - sticks, cat & mouse, bone dice and more.

Great Treats -- Come hungry and eat often. We have ham & bean soup, chicken noodles, steak sandwiches, baked potatoes with everything, apple dumplings, kettle korn, Indian fry bread, and more.

Lots More – Take a hayride ($1 per person for the hayride shuttle around the farm), make a candle or a piece of rope, walk on stilts, jump in a straw pile, visit the museum, learn about the root cellar, and more. The barnyard is filled with activity and most of the animals are in the pasture. Farmers take the opportunity to get the thresher and corn binding machine working. Taste a sample of freshly baked cornbread cooked in the wood-burning stove at the hired hands house. Watch as soap is made in the carriage house or take the hayride shuttle around the historic areas of the park for only $1 per person. Get off the wagon at the pioneer farm and schoolhouse and catch the next shuttle back to the barnyard.

Corn Maze – The corn maze, north of the parking lot, is open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. A separate fee is charged for the maze. See information elsewhere on this web page.  

Historical Buildings – Buckley Homestead Museum ˇ Pioneer Log House ˇ One-room schoolhouse ˇ Hired Hands Quarters ˇ Buckley Barn

If you looking for a unique way to celebrate Earth Day, join a Lake County Parks naturalist to usher in spring with the American Woodcock.  The American Woodcock is best known for the male’s spectacular flight displays over its breeding grounds. These displays occur at dusk and again at dawn. The birds circle up to hundreds of feet high and then descend in a zigzag flight. Once they have landed, their distinctive “peent” calls penetrate the silence of the evening or early morning hours.

Anyone who has witnessed the flight of the woodcock recognizes it as one of the earliest signs of spring. Some woodcocks return as early as February and “perform” while snow is still on the ground. Join us at dusk as we stake out an area to usher in spring with our fascinating crepuscular friend, the American Woodcock.